]]>By: Ed Yonghttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/06/07/to-study-vampire-spiders-build-frankenstein-mosquitoes/#comment-15136
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:09:39 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7053#comment-15136Thanks Leslie! Corrected both those things. I’d heard about the latest tarantula stuff but forgot that it was in the slideshow.

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]]>By: Leslie Brunettahttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/06/07/to-study-vampire-spiders-build-frankenstein-mosquitoes/#comment-15135
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:48:45 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7053#comment-15135Wow–more great work from Robert Jackson and colleagues on jumping spiders and how they decipher their world. Anyone interested in these amazing creatures should look up his papers.

Ed: Great post, but a correction, I think: I think you mean “receptors,” not “lenses.” Spiders have camera eyes.

Also, in the gallery, the story about tarantulas producing silk from their feet should probably be omitted. It seems pretty clear from Rainer Foelix’s recent work that it’s highly unlikely they do so.